Siding in the shade.
Cornwall Park is the leafy older neighborhood wrapped around the park itself, a place defined by its mature trees and deep shade. That shade is lovely to live under and rough on siding. North-facing walls here barely see the sun, so after our long damp stretches they stay wet far longer than a wall across town that catches afternoon light. The result is the green stuff: moss and mildew creeping up the bottom courses, and behind the hardboard and older cladding, rot that's had a moist, shaded environment to work in for years.
This is the neighborhood where the rainscreen argument is easiest to make. When a wall can't dry from the front because the sun never hits it, drying from the back becomes everything. We tear off the failing siding, fix the rot and the soft sheathing, and build a vented rainscreen so air can move behind the new cladding and carry moisture out even on a shaded north wall. Paired with fiber cement or engineered wood that doesn't feed mold, it's the difference between a Cornwall Park wall that stays sound and one that's green again in three years.
What we see on Cornwall Park homes.
Common home styles
Early to mid-1900s homes around the park, a mix of bungalows and later houses, much of it in hardboard and wood siding under heavy tree cover.
Popular projects
Rot repair behind hardboard, rainscreen re-sides on shaded north walls, fiber cement and engineered wood re-clads that resist mold, and moss-and-mildew remediation at the bottom courses.
Climate & siding considerations
Cornwall Park's mature trees and deep shade keep walls damp long after the rain stops. We build a rainscreen so shaded north walls can dry from the back, and use cladding that won't feed moss and mildew.